Deseret Evening News | 1897-07-24 | Page 3 | The Utah Pioneers

r r r fe < ttlr 11 I > j > > > if d1ffJf t lffkl 1i iL L r ri iii irtIrr 4 u 0 = I Jii d 3 L JhW j 1 Ffr < > J > Ji 3 I t o > or r c J htjv wv l oV 0 do e Z 4 I t J 1 I < JP v V X4 J 4 1 Hit II IfJ < M CAMP AT KEOKUK TI U 1 TAII I PIONEERS J 1 I It Jl + ITI Continued from tagt itco and notions ill that witry con low I those sick alld delicate turn and wothcrs driven from com tires and those innocent tomes rr Pliable stf under those babes helpless for sensItive be left fJnditions may lIow ftred the Inds to in me Chefared tmfirnt i eds the mlinn and the helpless nameless the is told by Krai tines generally on the Iowa prairie by which fs could be followed Vormontralcouldbe the Mormon fee tragic story is nut fully to be reLied re-Lied in the words of men S About this tine the ship Brooklyn pled fro n New York with two hundred and thirt five Saints in urge of Elder Samuel Brannan their destination being San Fran rsco then Yerba Buena Brannan le eed the ultimate destination of the Saints II ould be California His I lompan was supplied with farming implements printin press etc Kid he published the California Star Jhen he arrived on the coa > tthe pioneer piper of the Golden State Branmn had entered into a compact jlh A G Benson and others by then the Mormons were to turner turn-er to the Benson combination ouch of the land they might acquire Ft > the country where they settled It was said that the parties repre anted by Benson included even President Polk and that if the Mor ions agreed to the proposition they would be protected and allowed to proceed on their journey unmolested if not President Polk was to send coops to intercept i their flight disarm dis-arm and disperse them On Feb Mary 17 at Sugar Creek a council ol the Twelve met and considered flee foregoing statements regarding tie compact s with Benson made in a tree from liranmn The proposi Ira was rejected and the schemer Benson and Ins company were toted with lent contempt The Twelve paid a final visit to Nimoo and the Templewhich J J i i f 1 < i1 i 1iiJ j J i b E II 0c fg t c tI J diA tJSifllfJJj i > Al Jj4j fiJ tt f JIJ I J XtJrJ W JW 1 Ift 1 s J1H r Ikft Ly 1rp 3 11 f r < 1 tf t 7 1 fJ n y a J sr J t l v7r y S iJ ggJj itokI 11 jN dM r jlJilJI1i 1 r l t L r W Jt Io 1 = s I COUNCIL BLUFFS fERRY Las almost fttted completed then per the I f brad rgi Ulon of the Camp ii and on Moa is 1st 186 P11 the only lr a general advance 10 Lle t nest Cut Stephen Marl Mn pith a hundred thesan pioneers led an preparing the wy for the sign bod body ul Hosea Stout wIth II Nmpany 01 l1emen guarded the Neils and i 11 John Scott ijther hundred with the arullerv men accompanied Ile miles The camp traveled that dIY and lass In the pitched aloe banks sans oil night still on 111 I 01 ugtr Creek Thud Intnued tally the Lch Ban exodus of dn rOll remarks There is > paralIe 1Ilrtlun in the worlds history to Iii pram 1Uoo was that passable for the advance copany Pany to cut loose tees from the because < the t on relentless puse icttto ictt aged y Iticeessary Runt the Saints made fur the leader L Ctlng chile Opro1tun 11 the van to ItsmNaus l and the rear body the thus I supervise l emcnt of CondtlOn a as hole I ul people c companies requited that the ad net to t > proceed 111 a man h ty provide bublsttnce by the y engaging Ut taruaang opera Lions So at uiom points such as Garden Grove and Mount IVgih I i lands were fenced log cabins built I and crops planted for the benefit of those who remained for a time or should follow Day after day the exiled Saints struggled westward over the plains of low i The weather was cold and StOI my the roads in a deplorable condition the streams at times im sabk and miry marshes often bi locked the way Sometimes aO hilt I was for weeks at a time some days only three or four miles advance could be made On March 27 at Shoal Creek where a three weeks delay occurred the camp was more fully organized The companies were kept in excellent order and the strictest regulations of a religious community enforced 11 > the middle mid-dle of June the first companies reached the Missouri ruer It had been determined to send forward a picked bind of pioneers to explore the Rocky Mountain region and Elder Wilford Woodruff ttis recruiting re-cruiting the members of the part at Mount Iisgili when an event occurred oc-curred which deferred the long western west-ern journey another year The war with Mexico had broken out and a call was made on the Mormons for tie companies of volunteers vol-unteers for the United States army I Previous to the outbreak of war application ap-plication had been nude to President Presi-dent Polk to aid the Mormons on their western journey by employing them in freighting provisions and naval stores to Oregon and other Pacific coast points While this was being considered news of the commencement of hostilities determined deter-mined President Polk upon using the migrating Mormons for obtun ing possession of California i thousand thou-sand of them to make a dash lor that section and take it in the mine of the United States This army was to be equipped by the go ° rnment and a thousand more Mormons were to be sent by sea around Cape Horn to aid fit i the plan Such wn President Presi-dent Polks scheme nut Senator Thomas Benton of Missouri a bitter enemy en-emy to the Mormons hid tor Ih gt d l it changed to i call on the Saints for volunteers to form a portion of General Kearneys force to invade New Mexico and California Cali-fornia Thus any project to aid the Mormon migration migra-tion fell through But the battalion of five hundred and fort nine Mormon volunteers was raised although al-though it was a very heavy draft upon the exiles camps The due of enlistment was July 16 1846While While these events were occurring the Saints in Nauvoo and the surrounding sur-rounding country were leaving as fast as they could lint the mobo crats had imbrued their hands in blood and were not satisfied They con tinned to harass the Mormons Mor-mons until on September Septem-ber 10 Col Brockman a dnipbelhtc preacher it the head of an army ol about eight hundred hun-dred regulators as they styled themselves began the bombardment of Nauvoo The citys defenders numbered about four hundred On the 12th the battle of Nauvoo the severest engagement during the investment of the place was fought the regulators being repulsed September 16 through the mediation media-tion of n committee from Quinc the city surrendered under a pledge that the occupants would be protect pro-tect d from violence The terms of this agreement were grossly violated by Brockman and his regulators who proceeded to work their will i upon the hclp less < inhabitants in-habitants Insult i and plunger I were the rule Finally all the Mormons who had not fled from the town wets r Q p J tP 1 < Lt J 1J i h i Lv gala = = l 0t it r1ll i 4 fl s 1 rrl rJrl t t eet r om 1 J t I t i I J Ifll 3Q d t 7 N > I xCrn i1f f ftt 77 11 A 1di1 rjJ1 f lN vy J t jrffiiJlJ W JdA c IM f < ll 7JJ71 li 1 f ELK HORN RIVER FERRY III START OF THE PIONEERS The winter of 1846 7 was indeed dreary the migrating Mormons who suffered greatly from sickness and inadequate shelter There were many deaths during the winter and it was w fill a feeling of relief that the approach of spring was hailed so the journey westward might begin On January q 1847 the President Presi-dent of the Church issued directions to the people in The word amliII I of the Lord I concerning the Camp of Israel l in their journeyings to the West This manifesto gate direc tions for organization equipment discipline care of the poor and afflicted and promises of the Lords I blessings if the instructions were observed ob-served 1 It was directed to those who should move westward in the early spring is well is those required to remain behind for a time As early as the opening of spring permitted acme preparations were entered upon to start out a Pioneer bind who should open the road to the place where the Lord hall locate lo-cate i Sake of Zion For I this purpose one hundred and fortyfour men were selected to precede the main body of the camp among the e were a few non Mormons who had united their fortunes with the Saints Besides the men three women and two children were permitted to ioin 5 q < = = f Z < 3i 1 < f I jiI J c ro jH I < k ry 1t i1 rW fy T 4 1if f o I j v i i t j s I ti G ra I l Y 4i al g J r jJ1 u l 07 J n 1 1 7 i t iJrOv J j J d J ft 0 ryL h f nGr p v t fk j fl v9 er N ff JiJA 9 T a wt g4 t W L > 1 fIft JQP lift 4K r r r itk > a IM ti y t1 s 4 rdI tc q 3 M + i iAF 1 ift r 11 Wf rtnr iti iYi I p l r I J t l a g < i J it A 1fl3ci fff J I > 1fi jJt l y 001 li 1 t < 1t < v il NIPs i i t < lit tt s t k wyto = v Jta fj f w P akW Yf 9 t I 4lr r FaACr F fflf vi li f lt o h s 1Jt I d I IhfM 1r t If l aL Ijifffiilil ttt4lj1q aY4 14aSa f ° tn1 dJ 7 ot d M W fM I 1 7f 8 IIIPpiPfpr J Pk1iffr o < 7 thrPII 1 1r p t p r y f c oro 7 r 11 f NJ1f f111I 1 lrf > Q j r n > fJ t i1 ENTRANCI TO KANESVILLE forced from their homes at the point of the bionet and men women anti children sick dying and shelterless were driven to the bleak western shore of the Mississippi the while their brethren of the Mormon Battalion Battal-ion were marching to fight > their countrys battles in Mexico I Hunger Hun-ger and cold and sickness overcame many and death claimed them Some of the survivors hastened forward for-ward toward the advance companies of the Camp of Israel others found temporary rest at Keokuk and others reached St Louis and different differ-ent places The exodus from Illinois Illi-nois w as in scenes of deepest sorrow and anguish upon an outraged t Christian 1 community ayeti their hour ol greatest trial the God whom they trusted was merciful and good to them causing the savage Indian and even the wild animals and birds to show them greater kindness than they had found among a professed Christian civilization m the state where were their temple their beautiful beau-tiful city and the many thriving villages vil-lages I they had occupied Meantime the Camp of Israel on the Missouri prepared to go into winter quarters The exiles were treated kindly by the Omaha and tt t j Pottiwitomie Indians I who obtained mutual advantage by being assisted in harvesting and building Council HlulU ferry was put in operation On the cast bide of the Missouri the settlement settle-ment of kanesulle was established and on the west side at whit is now Florence Nebraska five miles above Omaha was built the town of Winter Win-ter Quarters which consisted of seven hundred houses of logs turf and other crude material neatly laid i out in streets with places of worship I I and was divided into twentytwo ecclesiastical wards each I with i I Bishop The place was fortified after af-ter the 1 fashion of the frontier There some four thousand 1 Mormons passed the winter while Garden Grove Mount Pisgah and other I places give the exiled Saints refuge during the winter months the company It was not the original origi-nal intention to include them but Lorenzo I D Young pleaded so hard with his brother Brigham to allow his wife who was in feeble health which was further imperilled by the malarial surroundings of the Mis soun bottoms to accompany them that the President consented ind I the other women were included their children being allowed along as well One of the men chosen Ellis I Eames ot the fourteenth ten took ill after the company left Winter Quarters and had to return The personnel ol the Pioneer band which was divided into tens then stood as follows the names of those vet hung I twenty four in number being masked thus 1 First Ten 11dfoH Unoltff CA + taln oho S 1notes l Jacob 1 01 tnlujji Orson Pratt Joseph Igbm lobo M e Freeman lar I ctts n llorpt I Gnome A Smith George Ward Wardood second TfnF T llfnion cip aln lion n Grater lu rnl ai I Adam 1101 ell Stevens Amass I 1 man Sterling trIggs Allen armngton llonu 1fu1lock I Gpog W Iiroau I Wnad l < chirli Jesse C IInl bud TnIhlnh I II Young captain ohn Y amen thotnas Tacnpr Brigham hung AIa inn laerett Truman O Angell lorno 11 Young nvnnt Strings Joseph S ScofiI1 Albt 1 1I0ckuod Fourth rem Luke S lohnon epln John Oman tdmund 1110rth Aru Hanks Geort R Grant Mmen Atwood Samuel II Fu Tunis RnPY marry Pierce Wm DAs bash Wter Nth Tennetephert II Goddd tapialn rlton taI tunes G Shernntt rlrilrr Coltrm yltester II CirlS 1 John > ion > amP am-P II trblt George holes I m gentle I W A Lntxy Sh TnChI Shumwur captain i Andrew Miurtmm Ihomn ool < cy Chun cey Loveland 1 nutui Snow James Cntg a Vn VVatctj nrth nm nUt 1 Vance Simeon IInd I Strlfy Qaen Seirnl lrern limn Cas c ptjln Artc rns Johnson Im C A mool Frankhn It nr ocv Urn Cuter Franklin i G Loss Ilurr Frost LJdlus Ensign Franklin I U Stexort 11 Monroe frlrk Erie GlIces 00 F Vast man LiBh h TnSrh Taft ciplain llorice Tl ornlon Stephen Kelsey John S I Id tdgt Charles Ilirnum Alma M Williams Kulua Allen Hobert T Thom James W Stewart Elijah toman Levi N Kendall Francs 1I0CC David Grant Continued 011 far four TIII UTAH I nvMurmo R i cUran page three ir Ninth Tn lIowJ Igrtn eptan HelerC KlmbaeTeW JImbn nm A Kieg Itmmns f I Clod f loss Csbint Robert ll awls cone r ndleg Eden Wldppie IIUo Johnson Cu Clar tan tenth Tn Appltlon M Marmonhln TR OI Orrin I Rockwell fe Nathanlal I t 1 R Jackmm Reddo John Pk Frares POlO toyAaron I Im Nttlianlel llairbanks llevenll Ten isn ihl IIIRbre eaietnh l John Wheeler ai Solomon Chamu eioieCon k rod t HLleman Jo eph looker Perry 1 H gerald John II 1 tippers James Davenport Henson Walker llenja nln I < o fe Twelfth Ten Norton Jacobs J captitn Chas A 1 carpet George S oodw ant I Stephen Markhim Lewis Hi ely < teorge M III Andrew An-drew OiBbons Joseph llaniocli John W Noon thirteenth Ten lohn crown enptaln l r FladncY Roundy tevljickman ymvi Com Him C lInn Hlfhe Ivory David lovten Hark Lay colored Oscar Crosby colored Fourteenth Ten Joseph Ma fliMvi eaptiln 1 a dhrold SummeJno Gleuon a has narks Alexander Ches cy llo Irer lljdcer Norman g l man Taylor Green Flake colored 1 O hers Ilirrlel Info Wheeler Young wit of Iotrnin D YounK < < Clan Decker Youngwire or IIrigham Young Lie Sanders Kimball wile of Heber C Kimball Isaac Perry I Decker stepson and I < orento bobtekl lon olloreo U Young This made up a total t ol one hundred hun-dred and forty eight human so its soul and boys three women and two children The camp equipment included seventy two wagons ninetythree horses fifty two mules sixty six oxen nineteen cows seventeen seven-teen dogs and a number of chickens besides l camp and firming utensils seed grain and vegetables a cannon guns provisions etc Elder lIeber C Kimball was the first to move towards the mountains moun-tains On April 5th after the Pioneers had been I selected but before be-fore formal organization had taken + place he took six of his trains and eiQ rstefu edn 1 1 i ileVi leaving Winter Quarters formed a y camp at a spring about four miles westward fins was a nucleus fore for-e the others to gather to The next day Tuesday April 6th was the seventeenth General Conference of the Chinch and it was held at Winter Quarters On the 7th President Young md others joined the moving body I which camped ten miles from Winter Quarters Quar-ters On the 8th the Apostles who had joined the van returned to meet i Elder Parley P Pratt who had arrived ar-rived at Winter Quarters from England I 1 Eng-land and on the 9th they started again for the Pioneer camp which had leached the Elkhorn 1 river thirty five miles md which they ic joined on April tits The stream k which was about one hundred and fifty feet wide arAl four feet deep was crossed by I means of a raft Next day the I2th President Young mil the Apostles with him stalled once more for Winter Quar tees to meet Elder John Taylor who had returned from Europe bringing over j zooo in gold coil inbuted to the Church by I the Saints in Great Britain Leaving I affairs on s the Missouri in charge of Elders P P Pratt John Taylor and Orson Hyde with Isaac Morley and Newel K Whitney as a committee to superintend the emigration on the i Ith President Young and his companions left Winter Quarters a I Wo3 1 I JJ time for the Pioneer camp IV UTAII AND DESERET To the Pioneers their destination was all uncertain except that somewhere some-where in the Rocky Mountains they expected to find i home they trusted trust-ed to the Lord I to direct them and indicate when the proper place was reached They hid heard of the Great Salt Lake 1 but the accounts ac-counts of it were very indefinite Ii There was a heavy emigration going on Jo Oregon and California ind the Brannan colony of Mormons had gone to the 1 latter place But the Mormon leaders had no thought of going there yeiri before the Prophet Joseph had refused to consider con-sider Oregon as their destination I ifs UTAH a fit h And tie 0414 Jtmn it 01 I r 1 f l1 P764 h k rrrJL I f rGIIC1 h 6 t iSl J s 1 c 1855 f > r c S AJ fLbB sib 71crtr 1 Ka 5 Cl i 3 f X iSn rx rrrrv > i c r 3tFfq Nr d v sMi 4 L VV 3 it A S s j OvHIp Bt K TT w v fe Js TOr i f y 1 t a Jd1 i 1 4 f t J J M Jt c 0 I t TT THE PIONEER ROUTE AND ORIGINAL DOUNDAHY Oh UTAH They did not rek the coast region I where they would have had as com I pinions many of their old enemies 1 Irom Missouri and Illinois who had joined the mention to Oregon and California President Wing ml 1 hu associate Apostles mine lool me for a place array from their pcrsecn tors where the Saints could b eonu mighty a peope as the Prophet I Joseph had IOletohlml I this could be done only here they were the dominating Influence They I wanted to build up Zion not Babylon 1 theirs was a deeply religions motile t if J r 4 V4 r17 I rJ rr jHJ i 1 i 1 a I t 1 Ii I t I r I t ILl v A C 1 r lJ Tf r 1A < I i t 1 I s t J Ii Ii I 1 15 gh 0 P I it J j1 D s E c V 51 RE T t ZIP O J t 1 t 1l 1 Vf = t I w f ° ° b f I A tiR to 0 If A t Vr t f J hO r r 1 i C i r YO I l5 1 t f t f vij a DESERET 1047 TO 1050 which they overtook on April 15 forty cvcn miles from Winter Quarters Quar-ters Friday I April iftli the Pioneers 1 were called together and the forenoon I fore-noon was occupied 1 in camp orgitn 711011 m with captains of bundled flies 1 and tins Stephen Mirl him and Albert P 1 Rockwood sere cp twins of hundreds and Addison Everett I Tarlton Lewis I James Case John Pack and Shuliieh Ronnl ly captains of fifties the captains of tens hive been designated in the list 1 of Pioneers Stephen irkhun was captain of the guard with instructions in-structions < to select fifty trust men is a standing eiiird l for the camp at night twelve to act at a time is sentries each part to perform guard duty half the night ill the vicmty of the wagon guilds for the inmiili to le chosen fion the camp outside of this special body ol menThe men-The organization being perfected at 2 clock that afternoon the Pioneers broke camp and again headed for the Ruty I Mount i n They traveled lOuui thiec mIto and r mp I mar sum urn i r The I 1 ti II pme rs we niv U 1 taw started l on their momcntou journ y to the Wet which looked l to the riches heaters not a search for earthly uratli and l pleasures 1 The land l whrro the Camp of Israel invade their mil stand 1 on the Pioneer 1 jouiney w is not known as today by the acme ol Lull netlur by the earlier title ofIJosent I In a general way it n as called Upper ilifornii and the Rocky 1 Mona rains A few trappers and hunters had paid VHUS to the place nil companies of em rints hid p din I d-in the vicinity loutptothc 1lt lie coast But none had I stopped lo ex I urine into its desirability is a place of habitation All Impnsslons from its appearance were that it was unlit I for civ il 7cd habitation It was the I Great IIi > in a vast intermountain I plateau broken I with towering moue tins mil regarded is almost entirely en-tirely a desert region The I first visit of white men to the Utah region so far u known i in modern tunes was in 1510 by a b l and Spaniard bnloning to the al nv of Ct tmdn They 1 cam nu th In i the Colrdo aver rear the I I i sou ho 1 IllY I I the pies 1 car btu ol l L Ih 1I1 I < n Urn n I a II nun m I 4rt h d 1 of the i rebion ol lie ere U il 111 sea a ind J I he relate i Jancllull talc Hut was wd him bv Lid I 1 ns i In r ii UOIII l I gulte ind I < alni nc to t 1 di Lake 1 f its lute I name I I mid vi Ud I he Ciieit Silt lake I Thz Jordan river they named the Santa Ann and the Indims 1807 7ckel I they called Williams i Tunpmois penetrate I In I Wyoming mill four ye irs later Wilson Wil-son Price Hunt conducted a party through to Oregon From I tint time on to 1821 few pirtles crossed I The l next yeir Williim Ashley I I pushed hit exploration to Utah I ike and named it liter himself limes Bruiser i chuns to have visited i ii the Great Silt Lake m 1821 and by some is given the honor of being be-ing its discoverer but it is certain it was seen and I written of by white men before I then When the Mor moos cattle along however he had mute information of it to impart linn anyone else who e account hey had obtained Between i8ia ild l ISJ3 Peter Skeen Ogden Icdednh S Smith John Didivell Josiah llelden and others entered the valley mil in 1815 Col John C Fremont 1 came and claimed the honor of discovery In i8i the emigration from the Missouri to the Pacific began to assume as-sume considerable < proportions increasing in-creasing yearly until in it t about three tholl < and had crossed to Oregon Ore-gon and California emigration of 185 seas quite large next yelr it fell olf slightly yet reached nearly two thousand five hundred persons mil in 1847 between I four anti five thousand l Oregon emigrants crossed the plains hose 1 I compiii es des ned fr Oregon followed the Plane and then to South Piss whence they bale to the northward bj the Fort Hall route th Calk format emigrants turned from South Piss down Bear 1 river to within a few miles of the lake then passed to the north of it In 1846 the Hastings 11 cutoff1 was opened l trill was the one followed fol-lowed l by the ill filed Donner party This road was via Bear river and Echo I and 1 Weber canyons mil along of the lake the cast md booth James J F I Reed of the Donner com pan followed a still further cutoff cut-off avoiding Weber canyon bypassing by-passing from Echo canyon into East canyon then over the Bg and Little I mountains md l into the valley through Emigration I canyon When the Mormons entered the valley the next year they pushed exploration in every direction md accomplished so much that when they or imzcd their provisional government of Deseretthe honeybee I honey-bee the r State covered a large area embracing ill the eounny be tw = n Oregon and Mexico md be 1St cen the twenty seventh parallel 1 west of a > hinton 1 and the Sacs ems The description ol the boundary is given as folio w Commencing at the Kb Grande del Norte J it its crossing cross-ing of 12 degrees not tli latitude the north line ol Mexico thence let r o he Pi chi j m on t e lords Ii 1 ut I the lln par uie of 1Y53t 1 then along the coist northward north-ward to the 42111 1 parallel west from Washington I t t9o ° 15 west t from i fc Greenwich thence on the 42 ° to the Sierra Nevada or Snowy Mount twins Moun-t and along the summit of these to 43 ° north latitude then cast I along the southern boundar ol Oregon Ore-gon to Green River along the channel chan-nel of this northerly to 43 ° north latitude and cast on this parallel 27 ° west front Washington from this point the cast boundary was along the line of 27 ° longitude to 58 ° north latitude then west on slid parallel to the Rio Grande and southerly down the main channel of that river to the place of beginning The organization of Utah Territory I Terri-tory in 1850 materially reduced the boundaries I from those of Descent especially by the southern limit of the thirty seventh pirillel which cutoff cut-off Arizona the Broiler portion of New Mexico md i part of what is i i now California and which included i the seaport ot San Diego This deprived de-prived Utah of having within its own borders open communication with the Pacific Later Nevada J md a portion of Colorado and Wyoming were taken from Utah reducing it to its present area lllllliltd 01 page fit 1 0 > tkJ I < Jt 74 = l < < IJ iiP y T v1R b rl A s m 1R lrl I = wt i t gfi 1 IJM r A Tiir3 lff tf p > f r r i J g1 1 rtJ1 ii I lfi ff 1 11 < 1 l il f l 1J 1 i 1 I I J If r iY I J 7r J t 1 < r l1 IlrJ 0 1 > oJ 1 tJ j l < 11 iltjiJjE 1 WOOD RIVER CROSSING Tim ITAII PIONEERS fiom WIt r V r f THE GREAT PLATO 1 ov historians of thc rio The official r Villaird Rlehard3 ter camp were Tholna Bill rCd William Clalon onir ViI 0s j 1 X k JXIruff all1 I other kept C eI rf ulll that in if of cnt9 so uJ ji joanl J 1113 I record F44 H Y coimrchinsivo J conlPle o y UralMi urale The order of travel 1j prcscncd body each mail 411 act 1 > 1 as in a 101delgust 111 hand or if II lit ith biloJcd liun convenient aOIl his cil amster 111 capjocks and flint Jr instant prtedcd II f r oil moisture 1 hb IIcre h lIeJeJ No Itall L 5ad dirt 3 e his leave the lc1II1Y 1 of lIagoll eouId NNllen prlc flcept by 1 nere dlllell two 5 1cill e tcablc I but 111 cbe of hotle i rl breast 113 br Imh111 were r emonstrall four or five be dr1lb1 ill I IJ The morning call was at 5 tI d breast feeding for riIIIg prayers oclock Aid I and breakft Seven laz aima s I hour for the regLtr sall ockck the sound of the Upon dc Itrun at 8301 p 111 the COlli pall y 114 t lugle for yers eld h to hi 0 II Tt tined ant rra by 9 0 elock I all but ezq 1 1On tu bed The Sabbath olIe n ere In obmled sacredly No extras k va JII wa extra-s allow cd on that day divine rida Ice hem hdd regularly Near prices e a h alltlehorssin lhe cimp were m e K I so most of lhe Pioneers 4 e toamsO ct whole on rude nearly the journey atAs Mated the camp was called to 11tether and more pel featly organiled 16 and proeeelled three April ea The next day Sat 11cs 10 camp miles was made and Iall irday seven f ilmp II ns inched near a cottonwood to lfflp where man trees were felled I t V our f f ft led for the I minis i in i order to the corn It WH timing the MC disting Sr S ftonoon of that day tint Ihe mili Jf hm order of travel I was ag ced upon it I fet I that place also the imp received fC is VL t from a trader w ion from iep ld1ir 1e Innee I Indian I village about t It n allies farther west The Indians t islung that put of the route and for 1 d1 Jme time after art one no vio tOI I I Itace I but subject t i I the camp to P4 fcuch annoyance by allempts at IIOJ crt ri I driving olT cattle etc iNsext diy was Sunday the first tus SJO i th after the company had cut Ifb nurd loose from the hOlly I ot the Satli ople left bd nl The Pion 1 eel s ICU 1 tcre nw on the great western pru 31 Lit fa They had begun to follow rlq long the north bmk of the litle I Ili I aa A al river breakup a new trail They 5trd these ths route although it was Uemorc dithult so they would be Post infrom interruption from Oregon and Call1oml1 enugHn who trI bt etl on lliesnulh ol the river mil 150 Jrany of vilHm we e Iron Missouri I ordo Md ould ge the Saints all the Isis tiouble they could That Sabbath toranx a chilling storm covered tlr ground Ktlm On I fill of snow bJ t 10 the alt I otn the either W e5a til federated I and III r Un shone bright OnM ndav Vrl the 19 thevvngons 0 begn to love at 7 15 I a m and 1 in f It > than II I1Ilrtr r < if an hour the nn II s pr i I nh according to tile e tabhhel I II ler 111 double tile Ih Country l IN level and the road l daidfl l en allies lias mae be fere the nUon top There ° P RockllII Jaksn Redding and J Ie Mile tile Jm in from Winter I QJartm fie In the afternoon another rales 111 vrcd And the Pion e amp cI I In n semicircle on de bank 61 tilt PIllle Up to this 43e the dlIII 4 II pro estimated IVltb a Lur I degree of nccnrncy as It afterwards determined this dw nrrrVletermineti on I WOI C11ytun tyton suggested to 0 I 11 on Pratt I Ihe i 11 V I I kl of attaching a lIoodn ° ° lOgS 10 a Wagon heel to ro ord the exact number of sides cah dv File mllrs Foot lie Mond1V camping place II 111 hell Creek lIa 11 Is it on Tu U I That was ahtytM mil fl 111 Winter fall ti Qmr liters vnllll 1I1lny mile had trII I 01 U1d i 111011133 trs Tan bdlllll 11 d a wil Iere in Ulwere it and put n nllmbrr of wIgon tires i Vint d I k That evening the ttittye d lgfi I i mod ol fish OUI Pn 1q hundn1 I having been It by I ral IThl tnt hcnd 21t Ili April tile II t J Pioneers for In 1 noon at a small lake l J Ill Fork 01 1 tram Ihue emptying into There 4ded bv Ihv lIere sur stages from tile Paw IIrc I r near br It 133 said t nOlgnhrhud Iout fOOO Indiansin n 000 b lis being war ibe hr Indla s tit calg et gathered ll around tile little l hand ill swarm tic nandin ig presents The Pioneers gave them powder lead salt tobacco nnd flour but the Indians I were not quite satisfied with the amount although they displayed no hostility The noon encamp mcnt of the Pioneers wns not prolonged pro-longed although a storm wag np pronclnnt and the weather grew very cold just niter starting a heavy rain storm Cattle 011 iccom panic by much lightning and thunder thun-der Travel was difficult nnd nils arable but the company kept on for three and a half hours stopping at 5150 less than tell miles from tie Indian cncnmpment Hint night a I double guard wns put on the camp I President Young took his turn with the others m Bunding Ilic night i was cold md wet but notwilhstnnd ing Ibis a few of the guard were w I exhausted that the fell nsleep and I were the victims of jokes by 1 their companions who carried off their hat md tuns lint topped the sleeping act Careful prepnrntions I for in attack were timely nt tint 1 I juncture but the Indians gie no sign of n desire to molest Early on lliur > ch the 2nd the camp lias ill motion Two strcnms were forded nt one Beaver rrr men standing on the lIe t side vIta vIt-a rope C > tcned to the tongue of eicb wagon assisting to get the train up the steep bank The 1 country wag more uneven The note was made that the soil was good for corn as Ins been proved in later years to be the fact The company moved on a few miles to a desci ted Pawnee mis si sionnry slntion There President i oung informed them they might iiie some of the w istng fodder nnd crIand hay for their tennis but they were not to take anything away not cent the cen-t value of a cent A strollg guard wag put on that night more to watch tbe sioux than the Im nee Indnns the former being wail like foes of the latter who suflucd nnnli fiom their incursion Net day an effort was made to cross Loupe I Fork at a place where it is about four hundred yatcli wide and not deep jut the quicksnnds gave much trouble A WA on without with-out a load could get ncross but tint Was not po s fcet with I a loideil I wagon Orson Pi alt tried but niter Acting half way over by the assistance of the men his wngon became be-came so CIt t in the Ill ck niids that the horses had to be relieved the wagoi unloaded into the beat I Intl 1 the vehicle drawn over Iith a long rope A few other v igons were taken ocr ill the saint way when the ntte npt was ibnndoned I for the t diy A council w is called and it Was decided to build two rifts That 1 night n hone was choked to death by the chill med to fistcn it the nniinil having fallen into a ravine Next day with raft anti beat the company crossed As the quick sands were passed over by empty wagon they were packed 1 down till some of the loaded wagons could get across I acroSunda April 25 was a wet day R Religious Set ices were held Nineteen Nine-teen hunters eight horsemen and eleven to travel Oil lootII ere ielect cd I and Elijah I I j Newman baptized for his health Before his bnptim he 1111111cs I could not walk without crutches but after it be vas able to get along without with-out assistance I Monday April 26 nt 3 am cattle the alarm of nn attack fiom Indians The gnnrd defected swage sw-age crawling through I the grass and fired at them frightening the Indians off But the next lay two valuable also camc across dogtowns here thousands of I me clogs dwelt the town Otlollllic i WI ermg several square fall I Hut evening one of the h1int > rs 1 Josej Hancock killed a bull ID reman il with it ail l flight to Kep olT the wolves nnd got assist nice next morning to bruv it into camp The I succeeding day being Sunday the usual order of rest WI is ob erved There were plent of his tfalo m xlenty ul sitht but ns there was no hunting I or shooting permitted on the Sabbath I Sab-bath none of the animals were killed The tennis of the company being kte I li f weak for want of sultieient food Monday M Iay 1 wag a rest day for I the animals anti the men employed I themselves setting wagon tires and < f t rJ e = 0 h = = H 1 jr ll r M A 1 I l i lYf rL r r jJr W W o v 0t I f i k J L I t f i v > et = C2 LOUPE FORK FeRRY u 11 i F = II > t i = = c = i L fti l orrl Pef wti j Jd A N I > l < ltXK = = jth Ay 10 r II r J c l It 1I ji 7 7 r W rt Ulf i r i4 F iji C r 0 1 f > fl > l 1 L > em 4JII > t > o t4l1 r JI ofIt t J II N I Miss PRAIRIE Doa VILLAGE leI < horses were stolen and several Pioneers who endeavored to regain I them narrowly escaped being killed by Indnns who fired at them at short range but fortunately miv > ed their mark The next three das the company traveled in close order the I leather being very cold There was little timber and buffalo chips w ere used for fuel On the 29th Wood river was crossed On Saturday May i Grand Island was reached and Passed That day the hunters secured ten buffilo ore bull three cows and six calves This gale n plentiful supply of ment which VMS sorely needed That day the company ill performing various duties That dny n hunter discovered 1 d out three I i hundred I hostile Indians me imped twelve miles ahead When the I company wag called together nt 6 n m next morning rigid 1 orders for safety were given the guard was in creised and the fOlllald 1 movement nude carefully No hostiles were encountered but they hid burned the grass making it difficult to find feed for the animals A Freoclllall I who discovered the Pioneers I from neross the river ind wh > Mid he hid come from Laramie I in sixteen diys euic over this dar the 4 fill he tlted 1 that there was a good road nnd I plenty of griss south of the river But the Pioneers preferred to make a new road for the Saints and to brave the Indian and burning burn-ing prunes in so doing This road is for several hundred miles the route of the Union Pacific railway Ih rcnchnnn 1 Clirles Beaumont I intended to go to tc Missouri river and kindly consented to take fifty or sixty letters back to Winter Ounr ters to the families of the Pioneers I I On the 5th the journey vas proceeded pro-ceeded with and at night a camp was made oh the burnt prune to escnpe the fierce jirnine fires that consumed the grass in all directions and made the > ituation of travelers very dangerous I dan-gerous The next diy the burnt district wns pas s a i Immense herds buffnlo wire seen in f ict on the Sth it wag estimated that at least n hundred thousand were ill sight tint lay They He ill the gras sot so-t le tennis were scant of food The I members I of the c nip had great difficulty dif-ficulty ill guarding the tennis from the vast herds of buffalo which were at times in great d mger The Pio fleets only killed such of the animals as were needed for food md in ninny instances when Young buffalo cnlves were ill the way of the trains progress the men curried them to a distance to prevent them following the camp On this date V ilhnm Clay ton placed n sin ill ccd ir post on the ground after inscribing on it with a pencil to be seen by succeeding succeed-ing I companies From Winter Quarters 295 miles May 8 1847 Camp all well Vm Clayton After n Sunday rest on May 9th the journey was resumed Before starting a letter w is left ill a board for the next company cxpc ted about ix week Lit I t r The letter 1110 I si mil 11 t m in II tl11r 11 I sawing a slit in the board i p i i ig I the letter in and fittuiaig thr cleats to cover it The ne csary directions for finding leo let in the board The next day the thcrwas shrilly warmer lie side the onlmnry nine of lhe f SpdY l f li journey spceinl merest Mas awal cued ill finding I a human skull with marks whch indicated that its owner bad been scalped On the follow ing i day Mail 12 n machine for registering the dMancc traveled l wnsatlnihed to a vvijon It was further perfected and liom the iftb wag mrcjuln service It consisted of a series of cog wheels made to register from the turning of the axle md L ive in nceui itc mea nrement So correct had I been the previous cstunntes however tint on i retuimiit t over thesime I routea vali ation tf only I twenty two miles was found From the 12th J to the 20th the ndvince continued except on the 16th which wns Sunday here wns considerable wind md some mill On the 20th the North Fork I of the Platte opposite while Ihe Oregon roast cattle in w is I leiched I Close by wai a lonely cedar Ine in the I > branch of win h were deposiud the remain of nn Indian child i comp imc < l by the equipments i wes nry iccortliii to Indian tnd t onto on-to ittei ditto i land I of fiture e njoy mcnt The next diy another sign las put by I Urn Clayton 401 miles from Maier Uu liters md according accord-ing to I rcmont 132 miles from Laramie Lar-amie Indnns were near the next diy anti the usual prec unions v ere taken The I character of the cOlin try was changing lo one of less fertility fer-tility here the elements had 1 orked the sand md day into fail I tistic forms Many new kinds if flowers were noted The altitude las steadily increasing is they cutest II cut-est On Sunday tie 2JJ one of the company Nathaniel nrbinks I was bitten by a rattlesnake and suf fercd eonide ibly although remc dies were applied 1 q ncklv The wenthcr w is quite w inn md the wind high A change clIne next morning ill n few Hikes of snow and a drop of forty four degrees in tern peritiirc hit I night n chief of the Dakota Soux a body of vvlum camped near hy and who were better I bet-ter dressed thin Indian previously cncnmtcrcd stayed over night with the Pioneer 1 comp my Chimney Kock one of the great natural curiosities of the plains visible visi-ble for forty or fifty miles up and down the river was approached on the 25th md Passed i on the fth In this vicinity the altitude of the road Was 3 790 feet above sea level There was no timber and the bullnlo hal disappeared though antelope were obtained by the hunters I There WIS more feed f > r the animals than for some distance I back On I the 7lh Scott j Bluffs were r idled I Ibis place received its name from II a mall named Scott deserted by Ins companions on laramie I Fork I being I too ill to travel nnd the whole party being wiihout food lIe managed to ernwl I six y miles I and died I at the liluiri Irom starvation It wns noted on the Sth tint the prickly pear his a very good 1 flavor md lith sugar make a Very good sulwitule for fruit Saturday May 2911 witnessed a spcciil religious meeting at noon the speakers being Briih1I11 Young I leber C KimSill ONJII Pratt 1 and Wilford Woodruff all Apostles The I camp entered into n bolcmn covenmt with the lord that they would repent of their follies ceise their evils anti serve God according to His I word Ever Y one present entered into the coy enant Ol th ise holding the Mclclnsedek Priesthood there were present eight Apostles seventy eifht Sevenths fifteen Hijh Priest I eight Elders I and fuur 1 shops sh-ops there was alsoat least one nonmember non-member of the Church Benjamin Kolfe After the meeting lhe com piny continued eight and i half miles and camped for Sunday which was CifliiniieJ eJll fajge sil I 7 t O ylk R i cj e4e Fp L it L 29 A7 MW 1VA w 7 7 Vill Q myg F15 7 YVI I 0 qn k zil 2 ffz M 4 e fill NO Ar i Ac I vIlit to I Its V vsZ 1 lit Nf lt 4 r f I I Is tall I Ill J I CHIMNEY ROCK 15L u I THE UTAH mm S I i Colllilllltd folll fagt fae I observed by prayer meeting in the I I forenoon sacrament meeting in the afternoon and special prayer meetings I 111 meet-ings by the leading iiilliorities in a rcctudcd place among the bluffs I The camp was unusually solemn on I that Sibbith diy Prim that Sunday t Sun-day camp Chimney Rock forty miles tvv IV still could be seen mil the Black Hills loomed up in the I I western horizon beyond Laramie I Monday the list diy of Miy wisi 1 I i I cool The das travel was I quite I I very laborious and fatiguing being over a sandy soil Next day the I II company reached a point opposite I I Z I 4 f r I L I r L t7 t cav In 1Z I I 1 1 I 7 Jr 4 i D6 42nt 77 M A A u1ixj li Jf Vlf 4 A j 4 1i A I tK fbf = 44LL1 I F vr1 K t V 4ar1 I k 11 I it 12 = T = r4 1 rn5 < 5115 rr IZI F 0o I w F A 4 P I ttg 9qi 3 frI I fr-I I F 711 If I 111 rr r = e W7 I 11 1 r r j e A S a xp jSmJf I I X 1 1 1 117 t 1 r1JjJfh I Ic I i 1 I 11 I I I 4 It i 1r I A16 r jIq 5 d Pi 1 I I I j 4 I I I I 7 5WW J > 3 51 qI 41 i it IllrIrJ = FORT LARAMIE 11 Fort Platte built in 1812 near the junction of the Laramie Fork I with the North Fork I of the Platte 1 the I fort was then crumbling to ruin Two I miles distant is Fort I aramie I the first permanent fail in what iiI ii-I now the stale of Wyoming It was built in 1831 I I Fort I Laramie I waS I 545 miles from Winter Quarters i md b the Pio VMS seven weeks travel by nccr camp from that point Fur I the entire distance the ruad had been along the north side of the Platte 1 It now became necessary to cross to the other side The Pioneers had covered half of their journey to I Utah annual tain vile where llicy ullicr i h viercdcstincd to fin iaeh which idci of as jet they hal no definite I but which they trusted in the Iord I 1 to make known to Hit servant 1 their President and Prophet > Brigham Brig-ham Young VI RECIIINGTIIECRESTOFTIIE CONTINENT At the camp near Fort 1 I irimie the Pioneers were joined b > a party of seventeentwelve males I ind five females Mormons from Mississipp who had wintered Pueblo with a detachment ofthe Mormon Until on left there because of the illness of the men in charge of Captain Junes I Brown The I Mississippians had I come on to Fort 1 Laramie arriving two weeks before the Pion eelS to join the latter on the western journey I jour-ney Their mines wcie Robert Elizabeth Benjamin B linnet I Elizabeth Jane John Mcllcnry I Walter II Will am Parker Isi Vinda Fxene and In Mimh Almar ene Crow George W Mitildijine Milton Howird and Jimcs Vilhim licrlkilt Aielibild little James Chcsiicy anti Iewis OIII I Me ers They alin five itons one cut eleven horses twenty four oxen twenty two cows three bulls and seven calves On this l i same diy June I the f Pioneers learned from a party of trader arrived fiom the Acst at Fort Laramie I tint two weeksbef the snow II dS several feet deep on the Sweewater and still deeper ill the mountain west m il ing it nee siry for the trader to leave their wai ins and come to the vicinity of Iarainic fur food fur their horseS Early on the morning of Vcdnts day June 211d a number 01 the Pioneer went over to Fort LIIlIIl1e crossing the North Fork of the Pl1tte in lhe solele filter beat ther Iwlnsed forineroccaiong and I which lIai called the Revenue Cutter I Cut-ter It had been the pruperly of Ira mllredJe and had been cdlliel by the Pionecu on a 1IIon Un reaching the fOil President Youn and his coil p4mons Ilere receilell l kindly by Jllns Bordlu the chief 1n there who conlrlclld to 1t the Pioneers hive his flatboat for Jus to ferry the Pioneer camp over tie river Mr Bordeaux mfor tied tl em I that the north side of the Plane wis no longer practicable for1 roid He I also warned them of depreciatory in isions bv the Claw Indians who Nut stolen many animals from the fort Mr I Bnrde give lie 1 further Information that an old enemy of the Mormons Governor llojgs of Missouri had pled tint way a hort time before and h id left word that Mm nons Mere coming ml wnnrd him to vv iteh them to tins the irnchman 1 had iq lied that the Mormons could not be worse thin Uocv land his pirly who were i the t me Mr qutrrelmp ill 1 Bcidi f look occiion mt to tell ll eMi I e-Mi mums whc i they finallv left Fort I I jar ime that they were the best behived company that had traveled that way I It wis decided on June 2nd to tend Annsi I LlnlII and others t Pueblo to hu rv th IehlllllIl 01 I the Mormoi Biiihin 1 I liHre whh had been ordered to go U Uiqwr t California by the Iy of 1 rt Laramie and the South Pa l s The 47L 11q next afternoon Annsi M lymm Thomas WooKcy John J II I l Iippctts and Rosvvcll Stevens started on their errand being blssrd therefor by Elders Young Kimball Richards and Pratt of the Apostles That I evening there was a fierce rain hail I thunder fact wind storm With the deduction of the four who went to Pueblo mil the addition of the seventeen Mississippians the Pioneer I company now numbered I one hundred and sixtyone souls On June 3 the I lonters learned from a party of white men who had come on horscbick in seventeen I days efr the Stiles tint large I mini bet cmitrmts fit n Missouri Ilh nois and Iowa wetc 01 the way and one company would arrive next d ly During the stay neir Laramie I the Pioneers I had repaired their wagons full at 5 clocl on the morning of the 4tli they resumed ferrying their 150111 over the Platte 1 lly 8 i m the list wagon 1Io1 over three hours liter the Mississippian had come from the fort and united with the camp m1 1 by noon the Pioneers 1 I were moving on the Oregon road traveling eight and a half miles over sandy soil whieh made them very hard work Next diy seventeen I miles wn traversed II smill com pall Oregon entrants pissed on the same road mil the next diy a larger company came along I Sunday morning was devoted to fisting prayer and cxlioitition laid in the afternoon it was found 1 ncces siry to move the camp five miles firlher on Monday the journey WH is resumed the rod being rough because of the quantities of stone rummy which upet two wagons injured i wonnn and tO children mil smashed some crockery 0 i the I2th the roid crossed to the north side of the httc I hich wis usu illy fordillc but now it was fifteen feet deep and about a i hundred yards wide For three diys in idv mee I detachment of the pioneers hid been ferrying over Oregon emi > rant m the leathern bOlt re nvni SI I 50 for each w Inn load and taking flour in piy it Sl50 per 1 too pounds ilso Mine meal ml bacon The carn ins were divided equally among theme the-me nbera of the camp amounting to five and one half pounds of flour two pounds of iieil mil a small I ec < If I bacon This food cattle in < iv iuly 1 for the Pioneers were lIeII Iv uut A few mIle from the terry I the hunters k Ilivl irec buffalo IWO antelope and a Cr air Lear and three cubs The Sunday encampment June I3th wis out on the I Platte Com mcnemg next diy it took from Monday Mon-day till Friday I to ferry the pioncer I camp across and in this time I it was necess iry to build three raiLs mil a ferry boat the latter being formed of two cottonwood canoes firmly fastened fast-ened with crosspieces During the crossing on the ifilh Junes Craig wai thrown i from i rift mil In narrowly I escaped drowning Win S Vards orth was carded with the raft two miles down the river before It could be Med In driving the animals across one horse VMS drowned On tile iSth rhoims Grover John J S I limbec Luke I S Johnson Appleton M 1 Hirmon I Edmund llsworth I Francis 1 M Pomeroy 1 Win Tnipcy Junes Davenport md Benjamin F I Stewart were left to operate the Platte ferry which President Young deemed it wie to estibhsh HIM reduced the compmy to 152 persons The welw1II1 jouriuy wis COil i tmued on the loth attended with special precaution against hOitile Indians 1 Each I company of ten took its turn in the lead during this jour ncy one ten being in the van one diy and another the next md so on The team were all ill good condition condi-tion md this day recorded the longest long-est trip m since leaving Winter Quarters i twentyone md onehalf miles the camping place 1 at night wis the worst on the journey the place being so barren the svvmip mule an infill stench the water in a rcim near by was so salty the animals would not drink it I mil the mosqu toes were II dreadful pest The next diy the journey was to a better local it While on the way i half dozen Missoiirians from a company com-pany dieid tried to frighten then cimp by phy the-n Indian i but got no good will for their I prinks I lint night there was some anxiety fur Wilford Woodruff mil I John llrovn who hid tone ahead and were not seen till next day they havinA edit ed-it a cimp a little in the lead June J 21 witnessed the arrival at a notable landmark in the Sweetwater Valley Independence Rock It received I re-ceived its name from a party celebrating cele-brating Independence Diy there a previous year The rock is i miss of granite nearly a thousand yards in circumference md about three hundred I 1 feet high hall way up afe j Ah there 1 is i cavern A guide board was erected at the rock within 1 in scnption giving 17St miles as the I distance from Fort I I inline It HIS 718 miles Iron Winter Quaiters lint afternoon the Sivcelwitcr river was forded mil Devils Gate passed I by The river there runs through a I chasm in granite rock a thousand feet in length one hundred md thirty in width mil with perpendicular perpendicu-lar walls about four hundred feet high File journey for the next five dns dals l r d i visa steady climb l through I i rough rock country to South Piss which was reached on the 2611 This place is the crest of the continent in I that region the ridge separating the I waters tint flow cast or west to the Atlantic md Pacific ocems The elevation is i 7 085 feet Orson Pratt cimped two miles ahead of the I company com-pany md there met a fimous scout Moses Harris who was inquired of concerning the alley of the Great Salt like which President Young had decided to travel to Says Orson Pratt in his journ1 1 of this diy 1 We received much information from him Moses I Harris in relation Ito I-to the treat interior bism of the Silt Lake I the country of our dcsti nation The next diy Sunday June 27 was the third anniversary of the martyrdom of Joseph mil Ilyrum I suspend Smith The tenenl feeling i was to spend the diy in fisting md prayer but in view of the proximity of other emigrants it was deemed advisable to keep on the journey That day Moses Harris I accompanied the Pioneers intending to meet company com-pany of travelers and pilot them on their way He had i mini ber of copies of the C il fornn I Star published at Yerba Buena liter Sin I rmcisco by Simuel i llranmn who had sailed from New York on the ship Brooklyn uith a company of Sums the previous car Mr Huris Live i ihseour aging account of the Silt lake valley but spoke very highly of Cache valley farther north but his description of the Silt Lake I v 011 Icys desert clnricter did not change the mind of Presidmt Young who low believed it to be the place which had been shown him is the location for the settlement of the Saints Vit OH THE WEST SLOPE OF THE ROCKIES The Pioneers I now felt tint t they were nearing their destination They were beginning to descend the w est slope of the Rock fountains in some of the valley of which they expected to pitch their cimp mil begin firming operations though it in the season wis already late m From I the inquiries the loading men made of trappers and guides it vvis evident tint the intention was to three of stop near one of the ikes I which they hid bend ofBear Iake I Great Salt Iake I md Utah Iakc I They also had heard of i like farther south than either of these but seemed to piy no heed to that The chief interest w is bctu cen Utah md Salt Lake I and it was clear that from the descriptions received of the latter and the valley in which it wn sitntcd it resembled neatest i I the place President Young 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PtA I lj F t 11j 14 J N I ft 1 f I Mj rt A PLY 14JII il I s VM I l I Jt t k i I K g i I 4 P 11 Ir11 Inl W Vfill I 40 1 Z tAAJjr tq VeW4k1q aw lift I I III 1 j I 11 Ir 7 I 7fb ZZ M4 r J Mf j ffu if 4 v L1fJ i 7ga j1f t ii 1 i6 1 I Y a V Thf t 0 i Cjl I dlJ 1 1 I lgft f11 0 M Pt i 4 r Jk hl iaN iMrlelMlli f f i 4 14111 1 i1f 71 g 1f A 11 11 liT IS 14 I If Ill I f y J N I A 1 li r d1EZ 4J vt zl 7 M14 I i I glft1tI k tllfj I f 1 I I I JI 11A X IFM j < at V I I I I + I Air 6 I I 1 i I trJf1rJ1 IV fM1tv1ri I 1 It I I i7l I ZXa 4 I7h M 4 t < 1A r 7 e 7 iJfftt 0 I 111d 1 I V 1 Yl 11 1 I447 31 i i IR t t 2 I I js I 1i F 411 ll I 11 111 I III J If 1 f I Ji in > V1 I f1t W rt If Yfi I I WAYSIDE SCENE ON THE PLAINS md the elevation increased fist tow to-w ml the mountains There was i luxuriant growth of grass and con sulerille timber Tuesday took the company into the hills with the Black HilU range on the left the mountain scenery was regarded as erind That day i buffilo was ecnthe first for two hundred miles The same day a party from Fort 1 lirulger the first fluffing post be and the Rocky Mountains wis met with en route to Fort 1 tarllnic I The glh ol June had a record of nineteen and iquirtcr miles traveled travel-ed Spaclcs ho and pick ixcs were in use making the ro id is they were ill along this section The loth md nth were without special incident except the first named date a com tunv of emigrants neir by had a About 115 I P m on Mirdiy I June 2Sth the Pioneer camp met James ln her of Hinder Fort 1 a station on the route they expected to travel This diy I was the one I succeeding that on which they had I crossed ihe South 1us of the Rocky Mountains mil their nisp ration was to seek the nearest place 1 to settle Mr Bridger was fairly acquainted acquaint-ed with the country in a general wiy but was not able to till much about it is a place for colonization lIt I was about a hundred miles from i i the Pioneer I camp to Fait I lndtr mil I from there to the Great bill take I about a hundred more He I thought the alleys southeast of Silt Lake I better thin that around the I take itself The Utah Indians AZ I ar f e i 1 V il Z r X V1 1 1 r r I I I p > A f 4 a Ir 11 t r = = 15 C N 11 W Q t ir 71 7 A 4i w m A 07k b Z It Z t 4 I gory1 I ij 7 I k It v I 7 i 7 kA I k r w kq Z ilr tL Z 4 I I I Z F 11 = Z 1 zf 7 Z7F 7 m r = IW t Ag Mq4V ii = 05JZMWZ = = z = = = 4 f C a I = 1 a 1 t Z 1 r eT = I 1 11 A = Z = 1pX Is J fcSi INDEPENDENCK riOCU around the like he regarded as 11 t I very bid people He told ol t the country down as fir as Arizona I which he believed to be better than the Salt Lake valley but in the I vicinity of the latter he thought Utih vallev the best It w is Mr Bridg ers opinion that it was imprudent to bring i large poptilttion into the I Great Basin until it could be isccr I timed tint grain could UL raied there lie was so confident this could not be done that he said he would give a thousand dollars for i bushel of corn produced m the SIlt Lake I valley The diy that Mr Bridger was with them the Pioneers deputed from the Oteton road here the Cihfornia road diverged from it deflecting to the south Tuesday June 29 the I cimp d traveled I into the I night and made the longest di s journey since lCd ing Wllltcr Quitters twenty three I I md three quarters miles Sickness ill the form of miuntim fever ip peared in the camp affecting quite a number On the joth Green river was reached and rifts were made for I ferrying the tons across Vhilc this w is going In Samuel Urannin came into canip fiom the Day of San Francisco which he had left ihe d iy before the Pioneers irted for inter in-ter lie thought the Mormons Mor-mons should settle oil the Pacific coast but resident 1 Young did not agree with tint view The Iirt three das of July were occupied I m i ferrynij f over Green rilCra i quite difficult work On the 4th live of the party P 1 II I I I Young George Woodward A F I 11 I Farr E Glines md R Badger I lucre I sent hack to meet and guide i the next canal of emigrants whieh left Wintcr Quarters June 11 and in iII i-II hich were the families muiy of life Pioneers The sane diy twelve I members of the Moimon Battalion from Pueblo I et1e the camp i I thirteenth t had met the five 1 Pioneers i 1 returning to the next company md had joined them The Battalion men were headed fur Fort 1 Bridger m advance of the detachment under Captain Brown in search of stolen horses In the Pioneer camp the 4th being Sunday was observed by Sabbath exercises On the 5th the company proceeded pro-ceeded along 111 ick s Fork I next diy II mis Fork 1 was crossed md Blacks Pork crossed md crossed At one of the Latter 1 crossings there were nine Indian lodges occupied by the families of trappers and hunters who had Indian squiws for wives and here there were several half breed 1 children In the afternoon the camp retched Fort I Bridger 927 miles from Winter Quarters This Fort was the secoi J permanent post established l on the great overland road and the first west of the summit sum-mit of the Rocky Mountains The buildings were two adjoining log houses with dirt roofs surrounded by i stockade of logs eight feet high In the fort and at the lodges men tioncd there were fifty or sixty persons per-sons white men squaws and half breed children A day was spent in setting wagon tires shoeing horses and making repairs and on the morning of the 9th the journey uas resumed It was determined to head for the Val ley of the Great Silt like by the nearest route Samuel Brannan milt mil-t few olhcis returned to South Piss to meet the detachment of the Mormon Mor-mon Battalion On the loth the Pioneers met Mils Goodyear who had built a fort similar to Bridger on I the Weber river and was engaged in trapping and trading He give them no encouragement to settle near the Silt Lake owing to the difficulty ill raising grass and vegetables vege-tables This diy the Pioneers crossed the dividing ridge between the w atcrs that flow to the Gulf of California l md those that find their way to the Great Salt Lake Net day was the Sabbath On Monday the 12th the journey was resumed President 1 Young fill mg I behind the main body through being severely ill with mountain fever The right camp was made at the head of Echo 1 canyon Next morning messengers returned to President Young who was too ill to travel tint diy though he felt somewhat lbt rd ntIJ Jb what i better than he hid been Orson I Or-son Pratt was directed to take twenty three wagons and I forty two men and endeavor to find Reeds route and follow it into the Salt Lake Villey It was the Presidents instruction in-struction to bear a lltle to the north md select a place and begin to plow and plant The advance company was made up of the fol loing Orson rraU tfphrn Marlhm John Broun C U 1 Ilirnum hji llurke Francis Does At I Chcssley Oscar Ciosbarlviiian Curtis Janors l gu J Chessney Walter Crow John Crow Robrtl Crow Widirr II Crow Denjxnan n Crow Joho 5 EIJde Joseph tb < rI Nathaniel Irbaok Joh 5 Ieemo Gree Fl4e John S OeJson Ud Grant llanj C Han in Uvllack 1 in Seplen eliey I Ltvl N i tn ih Ken Ull i fl lark Uv J < Seph Mallhtwi el 1 iII i-II Meyin P I ill Newmui Divld Io er O I V Kockvel I 1 I Jackwn ri Re i 1 1 n t slmlrih Koundy JdmesW S e n Gubroid Somme lIorRc lhornlon MRrcn II 1 horpe George W i herlklll Norman Taylor 1 V lh I 1 alt and Hi led rhcuu alia Kobcil Crow land and chitdre This company was the first detachment de-tachment to enter the valley At this time the camp was at the head of Echo canyon which Orson Pratt describes is a narrow v file from I ten to twelve rods wide upon rich side of which hills rise abruptly to a fight of eight to twelve hundred feet with vertical md overhanging precipices of red stone The canyon can-yon was named from the pronounced echoes given by its form to any Cottltnuet o i fact serrn fr Iogt SI It was the wall I Ju d lIithiO it e famous ten years a canyon ueing 1me John > ton arm l ke t of July 141h On the nwrlltn mwed down ny dlJllce comp ithin e = anti enl red I t 0 Stile e bJrder of the nt tie next e i evening I I Llh Dye ere own on the j hC 11 they the same chv Ieber rivet nnel joined the main o ng rtSIJeni head of Echo elnoll dmp at the mcselleri lere sent 16th On the eOl11pal1 I111ce Ihe I frol11 til Lark from turned allaY bch ha 10 Ihe Reed cut all route Ieber the main com canyon tbrough Enst wen Hearing the valley md pressed I 01 a ill und Hinted uid cheerful h nit though their limbs were worn and wear VIII INtO THE CHEAT SALT LAKE VALLEY On Wednc div July 21 both camps were istir Hit main company pan moved III 630 i 01 i alld tlut day obtained from thc Dig Muuntiin the welcome sight lint h id greeted tin eyes of Oisin 1ritt an1 I John Hrown on the iglh tiilc 1 loun Inn was crossed tud I migrition cin > on which opened illlO the Salt Lake 1 alley wis the camping ptce tint night The advallce eomplnys clmp was onH i mile ahead In the awful condition of the roul tru elcd it had lalen t thirteen hours to I I t I i i I t 1I 1 A DULLCTIN OF THC PLAINS I j came dOli nniio canyon thaI Land next anel 1 Mopped early be Uc the I res dent was too ill to ni nt I 11 it is relate of this dite 1 hTames A lillie I alone 01 the peer hunter I Joseph II ncocl k 3 heh illutrites the cxlnustivt cTomthciiensotnit UPS put forth tnd ao ret n 10 whit may IiUv I te ntleir tpjmpsi which im of tOe P orccr comp my got of the Silt I lake illey JOIh Hancock tin bed to the top ol a high ridge I aod 1W to Ihe et i pinion of i Jree opo valley He kiili 1 i I < r cek nl III nrrv I it low ud r amp workrl u II IIno i the n ght I tho it Imdmg 11 I 111 cri < sing a I aver ill n he I broke through is I dei 1 rgelix with his extrcnu I to n the v tcr Iheie le h tot I to-t ret a 1111 mnut during wlieh mel efell 01 I ep and wis ikened I Ip rtnig n xt morning wlncli i Did him IIIre the cimp vv is As Vic valev of thc Great Silt Lale I I I tin be ten from some of tho e high i r d Igc Ilimo I kcrhipshid a view 111 I Thc rO1I1 I bif n the com any II1S I ron cxcioil nglv ditliutthe worst in the II hole l route md scuncdto Ett uore is the vinquirdidv need t plhni gre1 I Idr I I II i n issirv to j 1ke 11 i 11slble The 1 Rrt d trill I I a bjnl diIerl1lule In Elsi 1 t canpm oti tie I Ih ilic u untin I creek lIa r is d I ih un I Hues m t shin I ilts nil ilv us with much U rk I I i t i e i kept I on I iTbenxi 1 v SlIId In mil meet I logs II i n 1IId I III hl1th I ups In e tox N oae pc 1 i 01 1 I rntrs I ill Lord lu tlllU t i 11 i sukncss tom 111 I HI I tpe nlly to Jullle Ir d III tint the company J tllght r d II 111 s i so agreed tl 01 P 11 t Ih IIIt I ihle plaLe 3 d 1 P I I i < 1 is llie sel n P t I1der I Hcbcr iP Klmb11 h I rL elihtimcl Ihft the 01111I LIIp pophisied WidthIIR LOI ernlll Uc suetess hIeh Quid COli II j E1rly 00 Ihe niKcfthe iglh I Orson Prm and I Juhi Iolln I went I Mj to IIbere ilc tril turned from jjstca von ov r hi I gh rdetht g fotuullo II sthev iseinltd nd ci frum t i 1111nll siu a port inn the I tr 11 i v IIt bcvonl the rlOnrtJIII rllIgc Ill 1 > knc v tint it 13 near bv md I Wre tiit pioneer Wolhe j III Ull1e IlIlins that 11e hJd I c t kmpsl of the icyoltet J iSlt lkc Il0 te qtl Uv 1 I j lr ancl w Clrncl tlcnm II1I hi11IIa wlihwasjustcn I nng Utrav The next day J < h D u cimps made i for I Kw Tm vir the uort road I Llley had cmo intend Hut Ihey J to tnvcl font Icon mils IVesi dent YounJs rear compinv of i few wigons hid 1 over tint eiy inconsequence in-consequence of thc sickness though the resident 1 who wis tl ivel ng milford m-ilford Woodrull s cirrn t wis feeling litter That > ame div Jnlv rot 1817 OisJl Prut md I i isliH Snow liking lik-ing a single saddle hoist preceded their company down Emigration 1 canyon IScir thc mouth of the gorge the found the route iinpisa ible so the thmbid a sliep md dinjcioin lull Ironi the summit of which they obtiimd the first view accorded to the Pioneers ol the I tirnl Silt Ilk > mlvallev I It ws a glorious sight U I their eyes is the irrd in ripturc upon the bro id open v die siirroun led by h qli inoiml mis the summits of some of which wet robed ill snow md the bine wiurs of Ihp like in the distjiict Ai thty I > oktd i shout of joy bmst Iron their lips I mil I rust to God I lied their heirts The tvo udvmced doivu the hill lowird the alley below I ristm Snow hid dropped his coat ant went IJlck I 101111 d st nice to find it Orson irilt proettded on alone md wis the fit ol the PiOl1 < ers to enter the Mile of the Ore u Silt Lake lie wis joined IIler I b Instils Snow ant lordlier the tiivi > ed 1 i circuit cir-cuit of ibout twelve milts At frst thtv reeled their course towirl Mill Cieek where the lushes looked like ginm but remembering the 1 res dent s instruction to hear to thc < nortliw ud the turned md etrne to Ihe bmks ot City Creek which divided into two slremis at i point near whit is i non the intersec lion of Slate md Firt 1 North streets I The rejoined their rompimons about 9 p m just above the mouth of Ihc ciion oft Inly I next morning ill wis bustle ant eigtr expectation m the two Pioneer 1 nmpi in Emigatioll I cm von The idvmcc company wis ibout lull n mile iheid of Ilic mini L I bod The s mall comp in of sick who were with President oung moved n few milts tint day md c imped fir thc night in Eat canon I can-on Of the fonv ird compmies Or > on Prall 1 George A Sm th 11I11 I sev en others rode into the villev to explore j while i the cimp mule I i road through tin difficult piss b cutting out timber md thick underbrush under-brush md doing some digging ant filling m When the exploring pirt got about five miles from the mouth of the canyon they headed nortliw ml towini the Great Salt I Lake They noticed sev cril small Mrcmis of dear witcr from the mountains saw tint whcic there I las moisture the grass grew luxun nntl but where Iht water fnkd I VCcl itioii wi dried up The I drier pllecs I swirincd willi vcr hr e trek t lirt 1 a mII1 thu I soir of ih urronII1 mount 1111 were cap pet with now to the northwiid were gret iHimbeis of hot spring ind as the like w is approached ap-proached the level became unfit lora lor-a ncultunl purposes When the explorers nturneit to the Pioneer camp they found it pitched 11 the valley about fie nnll a quarter miles from the mouth of the ciiion and two miles south of where the city iJ IiI il1 ieT r and county bml I ng now s flic roul uinctcr showe1 tht dMance from Winter Quirtcrs to be 1 034 miles On the mum trip icross Ihe p mis the route measured by the rolll omctcr 11 n I 032 miles the ex act distance now Ira tied over neitl the whole course viithe UnIon pcifie I railro1l1 from Omilm to Ogdtn With the d tuning of Ihe following di John Pack in < 1 Joseph Milthews were sent Inrk to Ire 1 ident oung to inform him of the situitio while ihc leaders ill the camp i rtpircd to cirrvout hH msliueli us I It hid dirc ted them to bear to the nortli md plow anl I phut They wee not fir enough noilh so they moved two miles ill tint direction direc-tion Mltluu down ill the loclil ne ir thc present mlirsictions of Stile md Eal 1 Temple 1 strccLs with Third South street on the bmks of i branch of the stieim iflcrwxrds eillcd City Creek Eall I ill the foicnoon a meeting was called to rcn ler prust mil th ml skiving to the Almighty for His mercies md truly the heal I Is I of the Pioneers were filul with ji rlIi tUlle I IdcrOibon Pratt 1 oflcred up 1 soiillil unvir tn Cintl nturnmtr thinks for Ilispiescrvmg 1 eirc md tuidnice from tht Missouri river to the v alle j met 1 the Apostle then md there iledicnted the camp md the ind 1 to which the hid come with ill it contained to thc Ionl I priing tint He would bless md mike it a hnd of peale and plenty to the Saints Committees were Ip pointed to attend to vinous dut ts md orders were LIVCII to plow the land Anishwis mult to bctm and ill i short time sevei il plows were ill opcrition George VII V-II rOln Win Carter mil Shidrich Konnd rm the first furrow tint were plowed h 1 while men ill the villc of the Orcit Silt like It wis done on IZibt Temple sireet whcie ihc litter is now cio > std b I irst South street The lIelther was hot 96 ° ill the shidc and the ground diy Severil plowslnres were brol en m the hII1 1 soil so T dim was nude ill the creek and the ground soaked mak mg it cisier 10 work About five acres WdS broken up tint iftcinoon As evening approached n thundershower thunder-shower swept over the villc Dip messengers to Picsidcnt Y ung ro turned stitmg tint he would belli the next di vulh the rest of the Pioneer wigons the hiving crossed the Big Mountmi that > di > The next morning the rjtli the Pionecis be j in pi mting potitocs iftcr which the turned ihc itcr from the creek upon up-on them md give the ground good soiking Tint wis the begin n ng of irrigition in Unh It wis very LIte 1 ill the seison but tht Pioneers hoped to realize a h irvest of food for their plintmL It wu ibout noon on Situnhv July 24 1817 whrn President Itng him YOUl1g Hebrr C Knnbill Willo1 oo < lriifi 1 orenzo U Noting md the others whoconsti luted thc ic ir comp my reached the cncimpmcnt on City Creek As the r inn out of the n irrow defile now 1 noun is I migntmn Cmon thc resident I asked Elder I oodrufl in whose cirrnge he was riding to stop tint he might gaze on the prospect before him The c tiae wis turned to i fivorinle position md the re qiust I complied i witli i l I Idcr Woodruff Wood-ruff sis Ve came m fill view ol th v illev of the Ore it Silt Lake the lan < 1 01 promise held ill reserve b God as i resting place for His Saints resident 1 Young riised himself slightly ill the carmgc where he hid been resting leak from his sev re illness He looked long md intently upon the scent before 1 him Wilford Woodruff saS the gized ill wonder md idmirition upon thc valley Illich 10 them was thc grind ColIl lllrd 01 bgf right d 77 i > > k i1 < < iJ Ii k 1lti TI1W rPi < At 1i I > i II rl r r IiI r I I JZi p = fttl I < < 1oI 0 t < q 1 f 5i 55 d rf l = I rth1 3 rjtt1 lffi u i rr A t r J f 1 A < t r ft 3I iI z = i WJi If W I Itr il4a < F ri IV I Jt D 1 1 i r Jii b I c j < I1II tIt > tI-t fi = ri = iJ rt i1 L J < f ft I f 9 < C > vJ rd h I j II 3 < < < Y J = = J j = 3 = v = = FOnT BRIDQErt TilE UTAH PIONEEItS Concluded f on page men J cst sight they ever had beheld is the thought ran tiircjgh their minds of the prospect that no many years hence the house of God would be established in the mountains and exalted ex-alted above the hills while the valleys val-leys should be converted into orchards or-chards vineyards and fruitful fields cities built to the name of the Lord I and the standard of Zion unfurled for the gathering ol nation At last the great Pioneer the chief Apostle of the Church through whom the f people looked for the voice of inpi i tion and revelation from God Pros idcnt r glom Young spoke the fateful olds This is the very place I Urn on u The very place I Had he seen r L It before and 3 ct had not entered itl This is mswcrcd in the words of 1 ristus Snow the second man of the Pioneers to enter the illcy It was here he had seen the tent vi settling down from heaven and resting rest-ing and I a voice said to him Here I I is the place where in people Israel I shall pitch their tents Some time t before as President Young had informed his fellow Apostles the I lord had shown him in vision where the Sunts should mike I their abode mil hid indicated it bolh to his sense of sight and of hearing Hence I when the scene came before his mortal vision he gazed upon it with the rapturous joy of a Brelt achievement attained under the divine di-vine blessing and guidance and recognized rec-ognized mil proclaimed it is the very place IX SETTLED IN A NEW HOME i The Pioneers were now in the 1 Great Salt Lake Valley their wearisome weari-some journey past for the time being but their toils and hardships as severe in subduing a soil influenced by conditions chtions new and strange to them They were a thousand miles Irom according to the dictate of their own consciences maintaining for themselves in this regard the prlvi leges and rights they accorded freely to others Therefore reflection and inspiration made them a unit in pressing press-ing forward in the work before them When President Young and party retched the place here plowing hail been done Elder Woodruff without stopping for dinner took half a bushel of potatoes he hid in his wagon md planted them hoping as he said with the blessing of God to save it least the seed for mother year In I the evening Wilford Woodruff Heber C Kim lull George A Smith md Ezra 1 T 1 Benson rode several atiICit5 I Creek canyon to look for timber and see the country In the evening there was a thunder shower md the shades of night came over the first I wcnty fourth ol 1 July in the v d I le thcd 1 i set ip aril Y the Pioneers t honor of the arrival 1 of their leader with the remaining portion of the camp as Pioneer Day in commemoration commem-oration of their advent into these valleys Next day was the Sabbath No band of pilgrims ever seas more thankful to divine Providence than were those Mormon Pioneers upon the Lords DIY fifty rears ago Ten 0 clock ii the morning found them assembled for worship ncith the blue 1 canopy of heaven and with no human habitation They w ere alone so fir is mobs md persecution were concerned but they acre not without with-out friend for God was their Friend I md with His angelic hosts was near to them and had for them a great md glorious I work to perform the OJJInJ r nJ IJ cn lubr length md breadth md light md effects whereof man has not comprehended com-prehended is yet In that assemblage of worshipers in the Salt Lake I valley July 24 1847 praise and thank giv ing poured forth in prayer and song and n i the remarks of all the speakers No a man woman or child had did during dur-ing the journey and they had been r r I l A t tom 1 r l FT r r J y 1 G r It s l < r Y ORSON PRATT Winter Quarters and from civilization civiliza-tion and five hundred miles farther from the beautiful city of Nauvoo I whence they had been compelled by a cruel persecution to depart The ciiinge in conditio was so great in natural surroundings from all they ever had seen before that it is no wonder some of the Pioneers were not favorably impressed with the new location Jut the objections and objectors were few anti the statement of President Young tame to them al the voice of Godthere was no other place which they could I go to in their condition and carryout I carry-out their purpose to worship God i I led direct to the place where they i I were to settle and which already had I been dedicated to the Lord I by an Apostle 01 the blessed Master Three other Apostles George A Smith IlcbcrC knnball and Ezra 1 Benson addressed the congregation congre-gation expressing sentiments of gratitude ail of abiding hope and faith in the God of Israel Again in the afternoon religious I services were held and the issem bl ige partook ol the sacred emblems which constitute the Lords Supper Then brief remarks wcieoflercd by Elders I orcno D Young John Pack and others and addresses were g < ffP 0 2 r < < fY JrfI 7di 5 r 1 f kJrfffi 1 W t g r 4 ejJ r lt NP 5E5 iJjJtl 1ffiiW1il j 4 fg AJtfl r f V i iff Vri9 fP if r jr f 7fff 1 J1Zq f Fr 1 Ijjif i i t I t < 1 h J f ft z x c m 1 r n i L s 1 t r 1 L 1 r f L 1 1 t r l ERASTUS SNOW Ichvcrctl by three Apostles Wilford Woodruff Orson Pratt md Wil ird Richard All testified to he divine character of the religious cork in which they were engaged and Elder Prills discourse WaS a poem of triumph for the cause of Israel 1 Is-rael wrought out by the power of the Holy One His text was Isaiah 527 8 President Young was too feeble to stand md address the congregation con-gregation but he added a few words of counsel to what had been said sitting in his chains he did so lie directed tint the Sabbath should be observed by all who dwelt among the people and gave instructions regarding re-garding the r ug pan cy of the land which wis to be 111 it the rights of all who should come should be preserved pre-served Early on the morning of Monday July 26 plowing md planting was resumed Under the direction of President Young exploring parties were sent out in various directions The President himself with i Part II lfIt N2 consisting ol II C Kimball l Wil lard Richard Wilford Woodruff Geo A Smith r E T Benson Albert Al-bert C arn ington and Wm Clayton went up City Creek canon and then climbed the hills to the west and ascended I Ensign Peak Wilford Woodruff was the frt to reich the summit A good place to raise an ensign remarked President Young as he gazed over the magnificent scene which the valley presented from that eminence and the mountain moun-tain was accordingly named Ensign Peak On the 27th exploration continued con-tinued the Utah Outlet since named the Jordan river was crossed and Great Salt Lake visited Utah Jake I was viewed from a distance and much information of the valley gathered gath-ered on that and the following day On the afternoon of the zSth the Apostles held a council The walked to the point where is now located lo-cated the southeast corner ol the Salt Lake Temple when President Young striking the ground with his cane said Here will be me lem pie of our God He pointed out the ground for the Temple Block and directed that the city be laid out perfectly square as it now is That evening aa meeting of the Pio ncers the plan wa endorsed It I VMS at that meeting that the words quoted quot-ed at the opening of this article were spoken Thu the Pioneers settled in the new home of their people The work of constructing buildings followed as quickly as preparations could be made thcrelor On the 29th a detachment de-tachment of the Mormon Battalion and others about two hundred and fifty in all atnv cd Later still others t Lftt k Z ACjjJ Jj > Ji11 < W 1 i L J < Jit f > J c C 0 > i < f M4 I1 ff f ti i 3r G 7 t7 7 r xs v v if F YMJjf F < y 2 > N r Io > sy V5 rr Ii r f l ff vti I t Mrvti < > J Ii < v i < < I L JfAII + s f w F ii I o KSfifV1 1 yt H v T J i 1 sra X i Kc r iio I 1 v r Ai = < J < 1 r i T1 1 Iri1 f 444 i Fei r T > 11 cI i1M li 1 SaS f > wRf < Jf oii I > t HyliiVV ia 4i d i > y f d afcr I I Jit nrl L D < s y i t i j = xv li ux > BicHiu vouia PRESIDENT Dn GUAM YOUNG ENTErniNQ THE VALLEY JULY 14 1047 followed and the work of building a city teas pushed with vigor so that by the time a company of the Pioneers started hack to Winter Quarters for their fimihcs Auj ist 160 great change hid been wrought in the appearance of the valley President Young Wilford l Woodruff md others did not begin the return journey until August 26 when they did so with a camp consisting of one him il ifcn flirt dree and eight men thirty six wagons wag-ons seventy six horses and forty nine mules The work of exploring the country coun-try north eat west and south was prosecuted vigorously under the din di-n of the Church leaders md many good places for settlement i I were found and occupied in time But before ihy of Uiese were seen or known at the Sabbath meeting on Jul 25 1847 President I Young had said It is necessary tint we should learn the facilities of the country and be able o report to our brethren whoie eyes are turned to wards us But I cm tell you before you start tint tt you Hll find many good places md many facilities lor settlement all around us md you will all return feeling satisfied that this Is the most suitable place wind the place for us to make our commencement com-mencement Here is the place to build our city His forecast has proved through corg fifty years of experience to be correct cor-rect How did he know of what he spoke when his natural eyes had not beheld nor his cars heard what was m the country How but by the same God giv en inspiration i Inch moved upon Joseph Smith when he declared the Saints should become a m ghty people m the Rocky Moun i 1ty het il lG d It tuns1 Itvvis the revelation of God to him and to the Churchthe gift of prophecy md revelation which came to this dispensation through the restoration of the Gospel to the SmithGosand Prophet Joseph J Smith and those who received his divine message and which continued with the Prophets Proph-ets Brigham Young John Taylor Willord Woodruff md others who hold the Holy i l Priesthood and Churchan which I abides with 1 the Church of Jesus Christ of lltterday I Saints or I janized i and authorized by the direct di-rect command of the Lord Jesus I mankinds Savior King I